Toolangi and Castella History Project

The Toolangi Castella Local History Project was initiated in 2020, through the Community Planning Scheme, thanks to the Shire of Murrindindi. At that community meeting on the plan, I got together with Jan Williams of the Singing Gardens, the Toolangi head school teacher of 2020 Andrew Bagnell, and our Taungurung Land and Waters Council representative, Brett Letman, who was later joined by Aunty Angela ten Buuren of the Taungurung. We gradually built a great group of local residents from Toolangi and Castella, some with a long family community history of several generations, some with a long-term residence and some new to the area in recent years. We outlined a project and were invited to apply for funding for the Toolangi Castella Local History Action Plan. This became part of the Toolangi-Castella Community Plan.